fragments of anti-fragmentary views of the world /
edited by Dieter Steiner and Markus Nauser.
New York :
Routledge,
1993.
xxv, 365 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. General Introduction -- pt. I. Human ecology -- 2. Introduction to Part I. 3. Human Ecology and Biohistory: Conceptual Approaches to Understanding Human Situations in the Biosphere / Stephen Boyden. 4. Human Ecology as Transdisciplinary Science, and Science as Part of Human Ecology / Dieter Steiner. 5. How Does the Person Fit Into the Human Ecological Triangle? From Dualism to Duality: The Transactional Worldview / Peter Weichhart. 6. Philosophical Remarks on the Project of Human Ecology / Markus Huppenbauer -- pt. II. The implicit and the explicit -- 7. Introduction to Part II. 8. Realism and Ecological Units of Analysis / Claudia Carello. 9. On Science and Knowledge / Ingela Josefson. 10. External Effects as a Bridge Between Environmental and Ecological Economics / Gonzague Pillet. 11. The Self-Organization of Ecologically Sound Behaviour / Hans-Joachim Mosler. 12. Subjection Objected / Dagmar Reichert -- pt. III. Structuration -- 13. Introduction to Part III.
14. Can Human Ecology Provide an Integrative Framework? The Contribution of Structuration Theory to Contemporary Debate / Roderick J. Lawrence. 15. Environmental Concern and the Theory of Structuration: Steps Towards a Better Understanding of Environmentally Harmful Agency / Markus Nauser. 16. The 'Concrete Mind' Heuristic: Human Identity and Social Compound from Things and Buildings / Alfred Lang -- pt. IV. The regional dimension -- 17. Introduction to Part IV. 18. An Ecoregional Strategy Towards a Fault-Tolerant Human-Environment Relationship / Gerhard Bahrenberg and Marek Dutkowski. 19. On Regional and Cultural Identity: Outline of a Regional Culture Analysis / Benno Werlen. 20. Flexible Structures for a Reintegrated Human Agency / Dieter Steiner, Gregor Durrenberger and Huib Ernste. 21. Spectacle Ecology, Human Ecology and Crisis of Urbanity / Ola Soderstrom. 22. Boundaries and Barriers in Relation to the Diffusion of Aids / Peter Gould.
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Arguing for environmentally sustainable lifestyles, this envisages a new kind of consciousness based on the notion of the individual as an agent mediating between society and the environment.